Other Mixes By Mark Petruccelli
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Theme
Marquis de Queensbury RULES!!!
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Bill Conti | Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") | |
| Simon & Garfunkel | The Boxer | |
| Of Montreal | My Favorite Boxer | |
| Frankie Yankovic | Charlie Was a Boxer | |
| Bill Gaither | Champ Joe Louis | |
| Ewan MacColl | The Turpin - Sugar Ray Fight | |
| The Tom Russell Band | Jack Johnson | |
| Warren Zevon | Boom Boom Mancini | |
| Chuck E. Weiss | Sunny Could Lick All Them Cats | |
| Actionslacks | John L. Sullivan | |
| Trailer Park | Muhammad Ali | |
| Miles Davis | Sugar Ray | |
| Christoph Bull | Blues For Sonny Liston | |
| Ben Folds Five | Boxing | |
| DixieAires | Joe Louis Was a Fighting Man | |
| Otis Houston Jr. | Sugar Ray Get Out Of My Way | |
| Rocky: Dialogue | Yo Adrian! | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Cassius Clay | I Am the Greatest | |
| Public Enemy | Ali Rap Theme | |
| Faithless | Muhammad Ali (Radio Edit) | |
| Mark Knopfler | Song for Sonny Liston | |
| Bob Dylan | Hurricane | |
| Tom Russell | Muhammad Ali | |
| The New Black | The Eulogy of Sonny Liston | |
| Big Youth | Foreman Vs. Frazier | |
| Trama | Marvin Hagler | |
| The Cuffs | John L. Sullivan | |
| Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters | One Armed Boxer | |
| Leadbelly | The Titanic | |
| Carl Martin | Joe Lewis Blues | |
| Cassius Clay | Stand by Me | |
| Tom Russell | The Pugilist At 59 | |
Comment:
(2) CD Mix of tunes about Boxers and Boxing. I've been thinking about this theme for awhile and stumbled onto "Joe Lewis Blues" (misspelled though it was) on a Public Domain MP3 sight yesterday and decided to get at it.A couple brief explanations; the Leadbelly song tells the story of Black Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson being refused passage on the ill-fated ship. The Otis Houston Jr. track is about Sugar Ray Leonard, the Ewan MacColl track is about Sugar Ray Robinson (as I assume is the Miles Davis song.) The Miles, Conti, Yankovic and Lee "Scratch" Perry tunes are instrumentals. The Trama song is a bit of a stretch because he only talks about bring from the same neighborhood as Hagler. The Cuffs tune is from the "Boycott Radical Records" sampler and is listed everywhere as "Various Artists", it took some digging to find out who recorded it. Cassius Clay was not a bad singer. I was not surprised about how many songs there were about Ali, I was a little surprised about how many songs there were about Liston.
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This is fantastic. I have a little Mohammad Ali tunes collection I can send you if you're interested.
very clever idea, mark! love the miles davis, public enemy & bob dylan tracks in particular, though disc 2 itself looks to be a real treat all around. i'm no fan of boxing, but believe it or not my girlfriend's father used to be a boxer. i'm sure he'd love to give this a spin...
Now this is my kinda mix: interesting & unusual theme, excellent & varied choices & fine illo to boot (or punch). Definitely a MOTW contender.
Great theme and execution.
Wonderful!
It's a hard knock mix
knock out ! (groan) Excellent mix.Have just sent you Michael J Sheehy's 'no one recognised him' . . . . about a boxer paid to take a dive! Very dark.
On "Spar" with the best mixes out there!!! Hah...Hah...Ho-My, that is quite bad.This looks like a fantastic mix. Interesting to see (and extra bonus points) that you used Sugar Ray, rather than a Tribute to Jack Johnson, by Davis (a pugilist, himself).But, I am saddened to note the absence of the quintessential boxing song, "Mama Said Knock You Out" by James Todd Smith (a.k.a. LL Cool J) ;) jk
Oops...and your five spot, good sir.
This looks punishingly great. Thanks for letting me vent my inner pugilist by perusing the track listing. ;-) Seriously, Mark, I'd like a copy of this one.
Thoroughly cool.
Now here's a mix that comes out swinging. Excellent, Mark.
Boxing Clever. A fine effort, with some glorious tracks on both sides.. Great Dylan choice..
Cool theme and well executed.
so.... who killed davey moore? (that's my fave.)
An original theme and a partcularly clever title. Great job!
Very nice
Nice one Mark! Looks pretty all-encompassing. (I always think of Nils Lofgren's "No Mercy.")
I like it a lot Mark! Great stuff.
Punchy! I have a couple more old tunes about Jack Johnson & Joe Lewis I will send you, if, as you should be, you are now the OKASBB ( Official Keeper of All Songs About Boxers & Boxing )
This is a GREAT theme mix! I did immediately think of the BFF track so it's nice to see it there, but there are so many gems alongside that one. Cool Public Enemy -> Faithless section. And, taught me a lot about boxing!
Some great hooks on here (oho ho). Very cool.